[Accessibility-ia2] IAHyperlink inherits from IAAction

Pete Brunet pete at a11ysoft.com
Thu Oct 22 09:12:04 PDT 2009


I agree with Jamie.  However, I've not pushed for a change to this
because, at least for now, I think the churn would not be worth the
effort.  If others disagree we can pursue this further.

Pete
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James Teh wrote:
> On 21/10/2009 2:18 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>   
>>> Are there areas that need improvement in either IA2 or ATK (or both)?
>>>       
>> I didn't catch Jamie about hyperlink and action, partially I didn't
>> understand why hyperlink can have only one action if it's inherited
>> from hyperlink. I think I felt out of context. Jamie, please give
>> additional details.
>>     
> I posted on this some time ago, but would need to go find the post. In 
> summary, at present, IAccessibleHyperlink inherits from 
> IAccessibleAction. IAccessibleAction::nActions (which is inherited) 
> returns the number of hyperlinks. Because of this, there can only be one 
> action for every hyperlink; i.e. action N must correspond to hyperlink 
> N. Imo, the relationship between IAHyperlink and IAAction is somewhat 
> confusing at best.
>
> Jamie
>
>   
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